Never mind that it's illegal here, the neighbors (more accurately, the neighbor's adult children) started lighting them up right after we got both kids into bed... ugggh. They know we have an infant and a toddler in here and have been given a ration of crap accordingly. Idiots.

Never mind that it's illegal here, the neighbors (more accurately, the neighbor's adult children) started lighting them up right after we got both kids into bed... ugggh. They know we have an infant and a toddler in here and have been given a ration of crap accordingly. Idiots.

The teens down the street haven't started yet. I hope they don't.

That's the problem in a nutshell... the infants and toddlers of today grow into teens, who light off fireworks late into the night, which disturbs the sleep of the infants and toddlers!

Heard a fair share of booms last night, no bans in Texas this year, but I thought they were still illegal within city limits. The dog was fine when we were inside, but less sure about all of it when I took her out for her evening walk around 9:30.

We had that happen on the barge on Lake Wawasee, back in the early 70's. Back then, the FD did the display, and suddenly, about 40 minutes from the end, all the firemen went diving off the barge and swimming like hell was chasing 'em. 40 minutes worth of fireworks went off in 1 second. Best finale ever been done!

__________________. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”- Fredrick Nietzsche

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant

Stuff like that happens even if the people setting the fireworks off are pros.
We had dinner with a friend on the third, and she asked if we'd seen her daughter on the news earlier. Her daughter works for some fire safety group, and had been slightly injured earlier that day during a demonstration on fireworks safety while standing way back from the fireworks.